Events

PBESA June 10-13. Would students be interested in using a department van to carpool to Reno? Ask Megan Asche to join van she will send an email

New officers- President: Megan Asche

Vice President: Joseph Taylor

Secretary: James Helper

Treasurer: Abigail Cohen

Faculty Liaison: Liesl Oeller

Communications Director: Abbey

Club Advisor: Dr. Zack

BUGSS Update: Mark Schwarzland is UI contact for university guest speaker vent. There was some confusion this year. Dave is WSU speaker. UI and WSU students will co-organize a guest speaker. One faculty and student will be on committee for each school. WSU: Crowder, Abbey and Abigail. Goal is to do event in Fall, but might be spring. I would invite a high profile speaker that will attract school of biological science department memebers.

Officer Reports

President (Adrian)

I will be working on transitioning the new officers onto CougSync. Thank you all for helping this club run as efficiently as possible, it has been a great year.

Vice President (Ben)

Not present

Treasurer (Joseph)

GPSA is slow at updating funding but our club account is doing just fine. Dr. Zack donated some boxes for making displays. Kunle says we got funding

Secretary (Alix)

GPSA (Kunle)

Kunle suggests that Josh M (our new rep) has a person in Pullman to attend meetings. Joseph volunteered

It is good for students to attend PDI events

Abbey is going to communicate with the extension person who spoke at colloquium to make a database of grid research, interests, so they can solicit speakers for public talks

Kunle reports EGSA received funding. Not many groups got funding this year, meaning we are awesome. The packet was good- we followed instructions.

Faculty Liason (Rachel)

Laura Lavine is interim chair (announced by Dean) for 2 years because the dean recognized “division” in the department. Laura starts July 1st, Steve stays on until August, so there is overlap.

Two new students, both will be in Pullman In August

We are not getting the spousal hire after all

Good luck Liesl

Communications Director (Abbey)

We are making a twitter and Instagram

May 12th garden community fair, EGSA will be there

Primary Committee Reports

Advertising (Rachel: Megan): na

Merchandise (Abigail: Robert): Rachel will join merch committee

Social (Olivia, Leisl): Updates through Adrian, May 11 Zeppoz

Committee Reports

Debate team (Ben: Abbey, Abigail, Jim, Adrian)- The team is occurring

Library: Please check out books and allow people that are taking prelims privacy

Meta team

Mini grants: Sent applications

Linnean games: practices continue

Good of the Order

Jeb Owen wants greater participation in Art/Sci over the summer so email him if interested. Megan says it’s fun.

If you’re interested in giving an elevator speech at PBESA contact Kunle

Events

Recap – ICCC and Insect Expo: Great job everyone, and thank you for all of the help! Insect Expo went great and had many attractions for the attendees. ICCC: Estimating approximately 30 people attending, with 22 who were NOT ENTOMOLOGISTS ! Insect Expo: Ran out of fossil stuff. Some people drove all the way from Spokane to attend! 200-250 estimated to attend.

Paul Catts: Doughnuts and coffee with students after this meeting and another talk @ 11:00am (FSHN Pullman).

Officer Reports

President (Adrian)

Nominations for officers are closed and voting is open. Follow link below and only vote once for each position. Voting closes Wednesday (4/25/18) and 2 officers will need to attend RSO officer training either Thursday or Friday at 8am in TODD 320.

How much we want to have carry over into next year? Revenue tied to honey – more honey in the last few years has been helping our budget. Books, live arthropods, etc have helped us use our money. Similar carry-over this year to last year despite these expenses. $2500 to Herma Memorial would still keep our budget at a good carry-over level.

Mini-grants could be a good annual expense – discussed later at this meeting.

Tabling at National and Branch meetings

Undergraduate involvement?

Secretary (Alix)

GPSA (Kunle)

Josh is our new GPSA representative after this meeting!

5% budget cut all around (if you have questions ask Joseph!)

Travel grants for summer are currently open – check it out! Approval from advisor needed.

Faculty Liason (Rachel)

N/A

Communications Director (Abbey)

May 12th Pullman Community Fair – look for updates soon

Summer display boxes and educational materials – 12 ideas for highlighting arthropod definition. Pollination syndrome boxes, insect special ability box, defense displays, etc. Instagram and twitter for WSU Arthropods – can help with communication. We could have the community ask us to show up in classrooms etc. Could be a good outlet for people who no longer want their arthropod pets!

UI graduate student meeting: 6-7pm on Tuesdays. BUGSS: get revamped?! Faculty + students on the committee.

Primary Committee Reports

Advertising (Rachel: Megan): na

Merchandise (Abigail: Robert): Pollinator mix seeds – possible have by May or June? Want NATIVE PNW seeds. T-shirts coming up with a call for designs?

Entom Prom: April 21st dinner at Black Cyprus 6:00pm and dancing in Etsi Bravo @ 7:30pm – UI students are invited, some may come! Non-club members may pay a small fee. Dress formally, like a bug, or like a formal bug!

Officer Reports

President (Adrian)

Opening nominations for officers as well as new faculty advisor at googledoc below. Will close in one week.

Faculty advisor: Currently Jeb Owen, maybe ask for a stronger relationship with the faculty via the Faculty Liaison and Advisor? At next meeting, ask anyone who is interested in a more robust role with our club.

We have a good deal of fundraising with our merch, honey sales, everything has been very stable

Joseph will bring a year-end report for the last few years to see where we typically stand financially, then we will make a decision on how much to provide for the Herma Memorial. We need $5000 total for the bench.

Secretary (Alix) – see above with Joseph’s report

GPSA (Kunle) – GPSA is meeting with the University President soon, if you have issues that need to be voiced talk to your representatives by 5pm on Monday. GPSA proposed a budget to the president, including an overall cut of 2.5% + 10% with athletics – there is also a reduction in childcare funding (but was alleviated slightly, could have been a higher cut). Transportation increase. Vote!

Faculty Liason (Rachel) – Next faculty meeting?

Communications Director (Abbey)

Community Garden Fair in Pullman May 12th

Pollinator education and advertise for bee hotels

Primary Committee Reports

Advertising (Rachel: Megan): See flyers all over! They look great! It’s also free! ? Christine’s facebook posts are a hit, photos each Friday

Merchandise (Abigail: Robert): Seed packets are on the docket

Social (Olivia, Leisl): Entom Prom! Coffee-Donut hour while Rufus Isaacs is here would be nice, working on the date. April Happy Hour for Bowling at Zeppos the 28th of April.

Committee Reports

Herma Memorial (Alix: Rachel, Jessa): See above

Library Team (Olivia: Ben): G

Linnaean Games (Jim): Linnaean Games Question Bank – there isn’t one! Make your own! Could digitize the binder/garbage bag questions (THANK YOU MEGAN!). 5 Linnaean Games team members: 4 competitors and one alternate – alternate should record questions.

Meta-analysis (Olivia): Going well but slightly behind. Will submit to Nature Sustainability. Next year: enhance current data set and look at local diversification yield impacts

Prelim study (Olivia): Done for the year!

Writing Club (Alix): Email crilly@wsu.edu if you want links to manuscripts

Good of the Order

Last night’s event: Inclusiveness and Diversity – Publishing – Blog is a nice opportunity for students – Wanted more information on SAC involvement – Volunteer opportunities hard to get for pacific coast people

Events:

ICCC: April 6th Todd Hall 276 – Update from Dane: Doors open at 5:30pm, film starting at 6pm. ‘The Deadly Mantis’ (1957 – supposedly family friendly?) followed by ‘The Thaw’ (2009 – Recent Movie). Advert is covered, we’re all set! Word of mouth to UI and others. Radio Station advertisement KQQQ and NPR. Museum opening that same night.

Insect Expo: April 7th 9:00am-3:00pm, Ensminger Pavilion – Poster for Insect Expo (Joint Marketing for Insect Expo and ICCC). Signup sheet: 9-12pm signed up, but other slots are open. 12-3pm empty. During the local elementary school spring break, but send info to Jeb to advertise to local schools. Peach Jar: Pullman School District posts flyers (free!). GPSA Approved our event.

Officer Reports

President (Adrian)

Opening nominations for officers at next meeting as well as new faculty advisor

Vice President (Ben)

Treasurer (Joseph)

Mini Grants (Olivia) – 3 per semester, winners are on the awards panel for the following year. $100 each, but $600 per year. Application in email from Olivia – based on: dissertation or side project? If you’re funded or not. Scholarly merit.

$1000 asked for this round – for honey jars, cavity nests for bees in the fall

Secretary (Alix)

GPSA (Kunle)

Faculty Liaison (Rachel) – See notes from Rachel’s email. Discussion on budgets – buildings getting up to code. Christina Rede is our social media person, facebook twitter and Instagram – collect social media profiles so stories can be linked, plus #bugfactfriday. We have a store on the website for department merchandise (shirts, other merch). E. Paul Catts registration is on the store, see budget code from your advisor. If you’re interested in the Faculty Liaison position next year, see Rachel. Faculty Retreat is in Pullman this year and joint with UI. New Chair position is delayed – but a decision should be out soon. Spousal hire to our department for teaching insect ecology and some other courses.

Officer Reports

Adrian: nothing

Ben: PBESA is worried about meeting attendance because it during field season. They have increased the student travel awards to incentivize attendance. Perhaps there will be student drink tickets too. Ben with others is planning student career event. Event will be 5 minute spiels by people with jobs, followed by questions. If you know someone with a job who is going, it is not a big commitment and you could ask them to present at it.

Joseph: we are not paying for SCS hotel because Dr. Zack is hosting. Planning to get purchase orders for meals with students. If you want to buy anything, such as terrariums, we can buy it.

Alix: not present

Kunle: most of GPSA news is in our common emails from WSU or Dept. It costs a lot of money to maintain buildings. Kunle is disappointed that research stations do not get new buildings, have old buildings. There will be a vote during GPSA elections to make undergrads pay $5 a year to pay for Daily Evergreen. GPSA needs 15,000$ to keep 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM hours ??? Volunteers needed for GPSA research expo. Apply to run for GPSA.

Committee Reports

Ads:

Faculty Liason: Faculty received a “Hyde endowment” which will pay for our fees, starting next year. This may save use a couple thousand dollars a year.

Merch: we could sell things /giveaway things at Insect Expo and ICCC.

Outreach

Socialization:

gambling, bowling, and surprisingly good food at Zeppo’s. Broad support for Zeppo’s.

University of Idaho has a social movie night, request info from Abbey.

EGSA Agenda Meeting #5 November 13, at 9:00am

Events:

Recap: ESA went great, WSU was well represented in the awards ceremony.

How was the insect feed? good attendance; most came during morning session

How was creatures of the night? 900 attendees!

U of I entomology booth complemented ours thanks to the separate rooms

Upcoming:

Honey bottling this week. Planning on Dec 1st and Dec 8th for selling dates. How much honey do we have? How much do we sell it for ($$/lb)?

May take 4-5hrs; 1:15-2:40pm Ben is in class; seem to have enough volunteers; need 4 total at a time; Last year we sold $8 per bottle or $15 for two; Need confirmation with environmental health and safety people; no idea about how much honey there will be; purchased glassware for 250 lbs

Need flyer (Megan and Rachel) and setup on Coug sync; we can accept cards; still waiting to decide on a date, preferably December 8th

Solidified student choice speakers; two talks; Speaker in February or March to avoid overlap with Cinema Cult Classic

Alex Wild 1st and….

Bill may be the contact for next year’s colloquium talks

Officer Reports

President (Adrian): Club is doing great, thank you all for volunteering for so many events.

Vice President (Ben)

honey

books; all new for $1600

Biocontrol book and group order

Treasurer (Joseph)

Need to talk to Adam for book funds

GPSA funding application in and awaiting response

Honey sales money will be directly available in a checking account; may have some restrictions for using it

Student grant or mini-grant system to fund anything related to research (travel, page charges, etc. w/ a student panel to read over and assess them); could give one out each semester; need to figure out more about how we pick the panel, how much we reward, etc.

Secretary (Alix): out of town

GPSA-funding report (Kunle):

New tax waiver where we may have to pay tax on our tuition waiver. GPSA has phone lines for us to contact our local representatives

Primary Committee Reports

Advertising (Rachel: Megan): Going to work on Honey advertisement in next few days (December 1st and 8th, while supplies last)

Faculty Liason (Rachel): Tomorrow is fiscal year planning meeting

Merchandise (Abigail: Robert): Patches: need to decide how much to order (200 for $300, cost use $1.50 and will sell for $3.00); Calendars (insect mating theme): want to send out template and final photo selection by Thanksgiving, Robert knows a guy for sharing mating photos with Arizona; close orders after a week or two to have them sent out by finals week, sell for $10 each

Outreach (Abbey: Dane, Maggie): Creatures of the Night went well; no plans until Insect Fest in April; Ben with USB full of lessons to Coug Sync; Waiting for Live Insect Zoo

Social (Olivia, Leisl): Today was our coffee and doughnuts; Metanalysis group going well; friendsgiving on Thanksgiving at Abigails (email her to RSVP; there will be turkey and ox-tail stew)

Ad Hawk Committee Reports

Debates Team (Kunle): Need to finish revisions; great job for winning first!

Herma Memorial (Alix: Rachel, Jessa): Waiting on Adam

Library Team (Olivia: Ben): Have book list

Linnaean Games (Alix): Texas A&M undergrads blew us out of the water; undergrads have more time; we should incorporate some undergrads in our group to provide them with opportunities to attend conferences and prep for grad school; mentorship program, but not necessarily with the students who work for us

Meta-analysis (Olivia): Doing well, collaborating with Christina

Student Retreat (Maggie): Looking for hot springs; maybe going to be during the first two months of Spring semester

Writing Club (Alix): Email crilly@wsu.edu if you want links to manuscripts